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Polio Deaths and Youth Convocation Highlights
AP reports a polio death in Cumberland and a Veracruz storm fatality in Mexico. Maryland teen Michael Miller died after polio infection amid three vaccine doses. In Indiana Purdue students Snyder and Mary Brown attended a Methodist youth convocation in Baltimore, with leaders like Harold Stassen and Eleanor Roosevelt. Luther V. Beard of Thurmont, Md., graduated from boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
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Cumberland
Michael Miller
Sataurda
Edmit
Bowman
North Cumberland
Methodist
Purdue UN
West la Indi
Snyder
Ray Zimmerman
New Market
Mary Brown
Hubert Brown
Lewis
Frederick
Baltimore
United States
Great Lakes, HL
Luther V. Beard
Rouie 2
Thurmont
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes